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iStat Menus version history

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iStat Menus version history

15 November 2021

  • Improved support for M1 Pro and M1 Max Macs.
  • Added support for battery levels for more devices on macOS Monterey.
  • Fixed an issue with Bluetooth monitoring on macOS Monterey.

13 July 2021

  • Improved support for M1 Macs.
  • Improved handling of Optimised Battery Charging in macOS Big Sur.
  • Improved monitoring of APFS disks.
  • Improved support for Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
  • Improved localisations.
  • Fixed an issue with week numbers in menu bar.
  • Fixed an issue with some CPU temperature sensors being missing on 2019 iMacs.

18 November 2020

  • Added support for Apple Silicon Macs.

2 November 2020

  • Added support for petabytes in disks display.
  • Improved support for APFS disks.
  • Improved support for AirPods Pro.
  • Improved display of CPU dropdown history graph with large number of cores.
  • Improved support for 2019 and 2020 Macs.
  • Improved battery menu bar icons.
  • Improved preference interface and icon.
  • Removed calendar events for calendars that are not user visible.
  • Removed history database from Time Machine backups.
  • Fixed some issues with menu bar colors on macOS 11.
  • Fixed an issue with CPU process display.
  • Fixed an issue with purchasing weather packs on macOS 11.
  • Fixed incorrect battery manufacture dates on some devices.
  • Fixed an issue with Fusion Drive disk activity stats.
  • Fixed an issue with hidden disks still showing in the combined dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause installation to fail in rare cases.

7 October 2019

  • Added support for macOS Catalina.
  • Added support for second generation AirPods.
  • Improved support for all 2019 Macs.
  • Fixed an issue with disk activity monitoring on APFS based fusion drives.

10 December 2018

  • Fixed and improved many small things.

22 November 2018

  • Added menu bar spacer items.
  • Added bold font options for all menu bar text modes.
  • Added core clock frequency, memory clock frequency and temp stats for some AMD GPUs in macOS 10.14.
  • Added label option to battery menu bar modes.
  • Added options to group IPv6 address by type and filtering options.
  • Added ability to customise the address used for the internet status checker.
  • Added options to sort world clocks by timezone or longitude.
  • Added option to show size and percentage together for process memory usage.
  • Added option to reduce menu bar graph heights.
  • Added ability to create fan rules that use AC state on laptops.
  • Added country flag icon to network menu bar modes.
  • Added VPN status icon to network menu bar modes.
  • Improved support for 2018 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved support for 2018 MacBook Airs.
  • Improved support for 2018 Mac Minis.
  • Improved support for iMac Pros.
  • Improved menu bar graph color options for Bluetooth devices.
  • Improved localizations.
  • Improved VoiceOver support.
  • Fixed process memory figures on 10.14.
  • Fixed issues with IPSec connections.
  • Fixed some issues with GPU monitoring on macOS 10.14.
  • Fixed some issues with bandwidth figures with some VLAN setups.
  • Fixed today widget colors when using macOS 10.14’s dark mode.

18 July 2018

  • Improved support for 2018 MacBookPros.
  • Improved process memory reporting.
  • Improved weather interface.
  • Improved interface for macOS 10.14 Mojave.
  • Improved resource usage.
  • Added ability to change dropdown section header text color.
  • Added ability to have multiple GPU items in menu bar to allow processor and memory items simultaneously.
  • Added ISS tracker to light map in time dropdown.
  • Added an option to control if purgeable space is hidden is disk space reporting.
  • Added an option to hide decimal places for temperatures in weather dropdown.
  • Added optional disk icons to Disks dropdown.
  • Improved eGPU support.
  • Improved localizations.
  • Improved default units in Weather extra.
  • Improved internet status checker to use 1.1.1.1 instead of google.com.
  • Fixed some issues with importing a settings file from version 5.
  • Fixed some issues with GPU selection for menu bar GPU modes.
  • Fixed some issues with dropdown positioning.
  • Fixed an issue with menu bar labels on non-Retina screens.
  • Fixed an issue with fuzzy clock in Time dropdown using wrong timezone.
  • Fixed some issues with memory notifications not being shown.
  • Fixed an issue with Bluetooth icons missing in the menu bar for Logitech devices.
  • Fixed a timezone issue on dual line menu bar clocks.

11 April 2018

  • Added an option to reset all settings.
  • Added location name to weather dropdown when using “current location” to fetch weather.
  • Added ability to change color of menu bar labels.
  • Added an option to show BSD names for network interfaces.
  • Added a separate notification type for IPv6 address changes.
  • Improved error handling of weather data.
  • Improved naming of S.M.A.R.T. and NVMe based temperature sensors.
  • Improved daylight saving notifications.
  • Improved disk activity monitoring.
  • Improved disk temperature monitoring.
  • Fixed an issue with some menu bar date formats being displayed incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue with dates using incorrect calendar with some locale settings.
  • Fixed an issue with selected fan speeds not being correctly restored after sleep.
  • Fixed an issue with the exported settings icon.

1 March 2018

  • Added ability to select the weather provider.
  • Added AccuWeather as a weather provider option.
  • Added Bureau of Meteorology/WillyWeather as a weather provider option for Australian users.
  • Added ability to search for weather underground stations by station ID. Please see Using Weather Underground weather stations for more information.
  • Added calendar filtering for events.
  • Added support for temperature sensors on NVMe based SSDs.
  • Added ability to set a different timezone for each line of dual line menu bar clocks.
  • Added ability to set decimal level for KB and MB separately in network.
  • Added ability to hide the calendar request UI in the Time dropdown.
  • Added ability to drag to scroll the hourly time view in the weather dropdown.
  • Added ability to click weather alert notifications to view more information.
  • Added a larger world clock database.
  • Added a single digit minute option for menu bar and dropdown clock formatters.
  • Improved iMac Pro support.
  • Improved localisations.
  • Improved weather location searching.
  • Improved disk activity monitoring.
  • Improved menu bar moon icon.
  • Improved dropdown readability when using the “Increase Contrast” accessibility option.
  • Improved internet connection status notifications.
  • Improved Combined dropdown layout.
  • Fixed an issue with some GPUs always showing zero for processor usage.
  • Fixed an issue with clocks not being properly localised with some languages.
  • Fixed an issue with clock formats appearing incorrectly with some languages.
  • Fixed an issue with some custom graph colors not being applied to graphs in Combined dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue with custom graph colors not being applied to bar graphs in Sensors dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue with AirPods battery graphs not showing correctly in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue with event day headers showing incorrect date.
  • Fixed an issue where UPS names might be missing in battery dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to scroll in the fan speed editor with lots of fans.
  • Fixed an issue with the scale text on some of the disk activity history graph modes.
  • Fixed some installation issues.

25 September 2017

General

  • Added light and dark vibrant dropdown themes.
  • Added new localisations. Main app and status items are now localised in 36 languages.
  • Added option to temporarily pause iStat Menus.
  • Added configureable notifications.
  • Added hotkey support for each dropdown.
  • Added ability to customise the order of each dropdown.
  • Added ability to hide sections in each dropdown.
  • Added single user install mode.
  • Added extra slow update frequency.
  • Added larger and more detailed history graphs with tooltips.
  • Added support for automatically installing updates (can be disabled).
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added option to use light graph backgrounds with light dropdowns.
  • Added Notification Centre widget.
  • Added an option to use a narrower font in menu bar text modes.
  • Improved history graphs to cover last 30 days.
  • Improved voiceover support.
  • Improved launcher — iStat Menus icon in dropdowns will now launch a specific preferences tab.
  • Improved and reduced width of menu bar text modes.
  • Improved user interface design.
  • Improved app icon.

Weather

  • Added a brand new weather item with 7 day forecasts, hourly forecasts, notifications and more.

Combined

  • Added new dropdown with more information.

CPU & GPU

  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added list of processes that require discrete GPU.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on CPU usage.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on load average.
  • Added ability to show notifications when active GPU changes.
  • Added ability to reset menu bar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added CPU temperature.
  • Added CPU frequency (requires Intel kext).
  • Added GPU frequency for Intel GPUs (requires Intel kext).
  • Added new GPU menu bar modes.
  • Added circular CPU graph menu bar mode.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.

Memory

  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added paging indicator modes for menu bar.
  • Improved memory usage display in dropdown.
  • Improved page in/out to report usage per second.
  • Improved swap history graph to show space used instead of percentage of available swap.
  • Added ability to reset menu bar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on memory pressure.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on free memory.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added circular graph menu bar mode.

Disks

  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added ability to reset menu bar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
  • Improved “Disks to show in menu bar” will now retain disks that are not connected instead of removing them.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on free space for each drive.
  • Added ability to show notifications based on used percentage for each drive.
  • Added ability to show notifications when S.M.A.R.T. status changes for a drive.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added circular graph menu bar mode.

Network

  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added internet status to network, as a status dot mode.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
  • Added country flag to public IP field based on location.
  • Added ability to manually reset total upload/download figures.
  • Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
  • Added ability to show notifications when primary interface changes.
  • Added ability to show notifications when IP address changes.
  • Added ability to show notifications when public IP address changes.
  • Added ability to show notifications when wifi network changes.
  • Added Wi-Fi physical mode details to Airport details in submenu.
  • Added Wi-Fi channel bandwidth to Airport details in submenu.
  • Added BSSID to Airport details in submenu.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added option to change unit lengths on menu bar text mode.
  • Added option to combine bandwidth for all interfaces into a single graph in dropdown.

Sensors

  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added support for CPU & GPU frequency sensors (requires Intel driver).
  • Added a brand new fan rule settings that allow you to change active fan set based on temperatures, active CPU and battery state.
  • Added ability to customise decimal places and units for each menu bar sensor.
  • Added ability to show notifications when a temperature sensor is above a specified value.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Improved fan speed editors — they now allow manual fan speed entry.

Battery & Power

  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added support for AirPods and some Beats headphones.
  • Added ability to customise menu bar layout for bluetooth devices.
  • Added ability to customise menu bar layout for AirPods.
  • Added ability to choose which batteries are shown in menu bar.
  • Added a stacked text mode that shows percentage and time for internal batteries or left and right for AirPods.
  • Added ability to show notifications when battery is charged.
  • Added ability to show notifications when charger is connected or disconnected.
  • Added ability to show percentage notifications when battery is charging.
  • Added watts alongside voltage and amperage values for internal battles.
  • Added option to completely disable all bluetooth monitoring.
  • Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
  • Added hotkey support.
  • Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
  • Added ability to show menu bar clocks on two lines.
  • Added ability to show multiple clocks in the menu bar with different timezones.
  • Added more moon details.
  • Added golden hour and blue hour to world clocks.
  • Added analogue menu bar clock.
  • Added ability to show notifications for upcoming daylight savings changes.
  • Added a graphite calendar theme.
  • Added UTC offset to city details view.
  • Added option to extend events to next 48 hours.
  • Added 24 hour date token without leading zero.
  • Added option to change first day of week in calendar.

Download iStat Menus 5.32

23 August 2017

  • Improved support for 2017 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved support for 2017 MacBooks.
  • Improved support for 2017 iMacs.
  • Improved per process network monitoring.
  • Improved per process memory monitoring in macOS 10.11 and 10.12.
  • Improved support for macOS 10.13.
  • Improved bluetooth battery monitoring.
  • Improved disk monitoring performance.
  • Fixed an issue with the sun position in light map.

22 November 2016

  • Improved support for late 2016 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved per process network monitoring in macOS 10.12.
  • Fixed a memory leak.
  • Fixed an issue where processes could be displayed the wrong name.
  • Fixed an issue with week number in menu bar.
  • Removed declined events from calendar.

3 November 2016

  • Added preliminary support for late 2016 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved support for macOS 10.12.
  • Improved bluetooth battery monitoring.
  • Fixed missing network processes in macOS 10.12.
  • Fixed menu bar order not being remembered in macOS 10.12 after rebooting.
  • Fixed an issue where iStat Menus may have required the discrete GPU to be used.
  • Fixed an issue with requesting calendar event access.
  • Fixed an issue where there may have been extra logging appearing in Console if the Disks extra was enabled in macOS 10.12.

22 July 2016

  • Added additional sensors for some Macs.
  • Added ability to search for states when adding world clocks.
  • Added a new single letter day token to date formatters that uses the MTWRFSU format.
  • Added separate Order tab for controlling menu item order in macOS 10.11.
  • Added informational tooltips to clock format tokens.
  • Reduced CPU usage.
  • Reduced memory usage.
  • Improved support for macOS 10.12 Sierra.
  • Improved GPU monitoring on macOS 10.11+.
  • Improved UPS support.
  • Improved support for late 2015 iMacs.
  • Improved support for 2016 MacBook.
  • Improved some sensor names.
  • Improved Portuguese, French and Italian localisations.
  • Fixed an issue where the time item may not detect automatic timezone changes correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with network interfaces sometimes being incorrectly showing as inactive.
  • Fixed an issue where some GPUs may not have been shown on Mac Pros.
  • Fixed an issue with bandwidth in the menu bar with virtual interfaces.
  • Fixed an issue with calendar event and reminder access on macOS 10.11.
  • Fixed an issue with the combined dropdown when changing dropdown skins.
  • Fixed an issue with disk space not being reported for some disks.
  • Fixed an issue with the CPU cores submenu not updating.
  • Fixed an issue with S.M.A.R.T. hard drive temps not showing for some drives.
  • Fixed an issue with sorting network processes by upload.
  • Fixed a memory leak on some systems.

28 September 2015

  • Added support for macOS 10.11 El Capitan.
  • Added support for 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro.
  • Added ability to hide disk activity graphs for individual drives.
  • Added options to use bold text for all dual line menu bar text modes (Yosemite and newer only).
  • Added history graphs for S.M.A.R.T. hard drive sensors.
  • Improved network monitoring.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
  • Improved calendar event display by filtering out disabled calendars from Calendar.app.
  • Fixed an issue with some history graphs being blank.
  • Fixed some display issues when using “Increase Contrast” accessibility option.
  • Fixed some issues with VPN connections.
  • Removed declined events from Time dropdown.

1 April 2015

  • Improved performance and reduced memory usage.
  • Improved support for 5k iMacs.
  • Added support for 2015 MacBook Airs.
  • Added support for 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro.
  • Added ability to have different skin settings for light and dark menu bar modes in Yosemite.
  • Added more memory details when using Memory Pressure mode.
  • Added an option to show activity for individual disks in the menu bar.
  • Added an option to show activity for each disk in a fusion drive in the disks dropdown.
  • Added ability to rename cities.
  • Added an option to only show MB/s or Mb/s for bandwidth in the menu bar.
  • Added new hardware info to network connection submenus.
  • Fixed some issues where disk activity was missing for some disks.
  • Fixed an issue with disk activity not working with SoftRAID disks.
  • Fixed an issue where disks could show 0KB free.
  • Fixed an issue with 12-hour time formats if system is set to 24-hour time.
  • Fixed an issue in the network extra where the primary interface setting may not have been working correctly in the menu bar.
  • Improved per app network monitoring on Yosemite.
  • Improved GPU monitoring.
  • Improved disk activity monitoring.
  • Improved layout in disks dropdown when a disk has multiple partitions.
  • Improved display of some menu bar text modes in Yosemite.
  • Improved event dots in calendar.
  • Improved moon item display when using Simple city layout.
  • Improved city database.

23 October 2014

  • Added support for late 2014 iMac and late 2014 Mac mini.
  • Added ability to customize menu bar graph background opacity when using Yosemite’s dark menu bar.
  • Fixed menu bar dimming on secondary displays on Yosemite.
  • Fixed an issue with week numbers being incorrect in some timezones.
  • Fixed an issue with the calendar month name being incorrect in some timezones.
  • Fixed an issue with minimum fan speed on some models.
  • Fixed a battery menu bar display bug with dark mode in Yosemite.
  • Fixed an issue with Czech localization.
  • Fixed some process display issues on Yosemite.
  • Fixed a bug with default disk activity colours being back to front in preferences.
  • Fixed a problem with graphics cards not being listed on 2013 Mac Pros.
  • Fixed a problem with graphics card monitoring on some iMacs.
  • Improved rendering of menu bar calendar numbers.
  • Improved battery icons.

17 October 2014

  • Improved Yosemite support.
  • Improved active graphics card detection.
  • Improved process display.
  • Improved Bluetooth battery monitoring.
  • Improved UPS support.
  • Improved localizations.
  • Improved battery previews when customising for each mode.
  • Improved moon display for northern hemisphere.
  • Improved timezone abbreviations.
  • Improved network status dot — now uses the primary interface if one is set in preferences.
  • Improved SNR display — it’s now dB instead of dBm.
  • Improved read/write colours for disk activity graphs (read is now blue, write is red).
  • Added an option to disable process combining (under the Stats menu in the iStat Menus app).
  • Added support for 3rd party calendar apps.
  • Added an option to hide Bluetooth kb/mice from menu bar.
  • Added arrow mode to network extra.
  • Fixed an issue with battery condition when battery needs servicing.
  • Fixed some battery display bugs with dark mode in Yosemite.
  • Fixed menu bar display issues with Bluetooth kb/mice on desktop systems.
  • Fixed issue with GPU memory and processor labels being back to front.
  • Fixed issue with menu bar disk activity readings.
  • Fixed menu bar moon display.
  • Fixed some installation issues with custom umasks.
  • Fixed issue where city list could appear empty on first run in preferences.

5 August 2014

General

  • Added support for Yosemite’s dark menu bar mode.
  • Added a new dark theme for menu bar graphs.
  • Added many localisations for menu bar extras.
  • Added the ability to import and export settings.
  • Improved process names.
  • Improved process display by combining child processes with parent process.
  • Improved and reduced padding at the top and bottom of all dropdown menus.

Network

  • Improved application bandwidth monitoring.
  • Added application upload stats to network extra.
  • Added DNS, router address and subnet mask info to network dropdown.
  • Added Wi-Fi connection info to network dropdown.
  • Added Wi-Fi power toggle to network dropdown.
  • Added a network status menu bar option.
  • Added a DHCP refresh button to network dropdown.
  • Added ability to hide individual network connections.
  • Added option to hide IPv6 addresses.
  • Added option to only show the first IP for each connection in the main menu.

Memory

  • Added option to show per-app memory usage as a percentage of total memory.
  • Added support for compressed memory (Mavericks and Yosemite only).
  • Added support for displaying memory usage as “pressure” (Mavericks and Yosemite only).
  • Added swap memory history graphs.
  • Added page in and page out history graphs.
  • Improved per-app memory usage to match activity monitor in Mavericks/Yosemite.

CPU & GPU

  • Added option to show per-app CPU usage as 0-100% (instead of 0-400% for a 4 core Mac).
  • Added option to combine logical (Hyper-Threading) cores with parent physical core.
  • Added a load average menu bar option.
  • Added GPU processor and memory history graphs (on supported models).
  • Improved load average graph interface.
  • Added active GPU menu bar item.

Disks

  • Added per-app disk activity to Disks extra.
  • Added new display options for Disks dropdown.
  • Improved free disk space info. It no longer includes local time machine backups.
  • Added disk activity text menu bar display mode.
  • Added ability to hide individual disks.
  • Added graph type option for disk activity graphs.
  • Improved RAID support.
  • Improved support for fusion disks.

Sensors

  • Added option to turn fan control off.
  • Improved sensors graph interface.
  • Improved display of sensors with long names.
  • Added ability to hide individual sensors.
  • Improved sensor history graphs.

Battery

  • Improved low battery warnings. They are now shown using Notification Center alerts.
  • Added ability to create custom battery notifications.
  • Added battery history graphs.
  • Added a list of process using significant energy to the battery dropdown.
  • Added new battery stats.
  • Added option to disable calendar.
  • Added option to choose week number format.
  • Added a smaller city display mode (version 4 style with clock face is available as an option).
  • Improved city database with over 120,000 cities (some cities may need to be added again after updating to version 5).
  • Added short timezone date format option.
  • Added st/nd/rd/th date format option.
  • Added a sunlight map to city submenus.
  • Added additional sun information to city submenus.
  • Added night time clock faces in dropdown.
  • Added ability to shift click the calendar arrows to change between years.

Download iStat Menus 4.22

31 July 2014

  • Added support for Mid 2014 21.5 inch iMac.
  • Improved process names.
  • Improved update checker.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
  • Fixed a bug with skip in the update checker.
  • Fixed an issue where GPU temperature.
  • Fixed an issue where sensors could disappear.

10 April 2014

  • Fixed an issue with cycling between months in the calendar.
  • Fixed an issue with IP addresses not updating correctly.
  • Fixed two issues that could cause history graphs to not work correctly in some situations.
  • Fixed some layout issues with disk activity history graph in the menu bar.
  • Fixed a layout issue in the network drop down graphs when using “stacked” graphs.
  • Fixed an issue with connection time for some VPN connections.
  • Improved resource usage on macOS 10.6.

3 February 2014

  • Added support for Late 2013 Mac Pro.
  • Improved support for Late 2013 MacBook Pro.
  • Improved support for Late 2013 iMac.
  • Added support for monitoring multiple GPUs.
  • Improved GPU monitoring.
  • Improved Mavericks support.
  • Fixed some display bugs in Network and Disk Activity history graphs.
  • Fixed some calendar display bugs.
  • Fixed a crash in the Sensors extra in Mavericks.
  • Fixed a layout issue with long IPv6 addresses.
  • Improved support for loading a large number of events in the Time extra.
  • Improved error handling when calendar event database isn't available.
  • Fixed some issues after migrating to a new mac.
  • Fixed some issues when iStat Menus is installed in /Applications/Utilities/

25 October 2013

  • Improved Mavericks support.
  • Added support for late 2013 iMacs.
  • Added support for late 2013 MacBook Pros.
  • Fixed an issue with menu bar bandwidth being incorrect when connected to a VPN.
  • Fixed link to Network Utility in Mavericks.
  • Fixed a calendar display bug.
  • Fixed an issue with IP Addresses not being updated.
  • Improved support for FireWire disks.

24 June 2013

  • Added support for 2013 MacBook Airs.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.
  • Improved support for Mavericks developer preview.
  • Improved performance.
  • Improved history graph interface.
  • Fixed some issues when migrating to a new mac.
  • Fixed an issue with some voltage sensors showing incorrect values.
  • Fixed an issue where menu bar disk activity indicators could become stuck.
  • Fixed an issue where the calendar didn’t change months automatically.
  • Fixed an issue where world clocks didn’t load straight away.
  • Fixed an issue where network bandwidth could be truncated in the menu bar.

1 April 2013

  • Added CPU Core temperature sensors and CPU power sensors for some Sandy/Ivy Bridge based systems.
  • Improved performance.
  • Improved support for Cisco VPN connections.
  • Fixed incorrect connection state problems with VPN connections.
  • Fixed an issue where invalid/unsupported temperature sensors were being shown on some Macs.
  • Fixed menu bar time format problem if multiple hour tokens were used.
  • Fixed issue that could lead to incorrect disk names being shown in disk activity.
  • Fixed a display issue where upload and download graph colours were back to front in the Stacked mode in the Network menu.

25 February 2013

  • Fixed issue with the wrong GPU being shown as active.
  • Fixed issue with calendar incorrectly showing some days as being in the next month.
  • Fixed issue with VPN connections causing incorrect bandwidth reading in the menu bar.
  • Fixed several issues with fan control settings not being applied in some conditions.
  • Fixed menu bar layout issue with used/free mode in Disks.
  • Fixed layout issue with CPU history graphs in menu bar in some situations.
  • Fixed issue in Time where the hour could be displayed wrong with some configurations.
  • Fixed issue with A/P display in world clocks.
  • Fixed issue with corrupt history databases.
  • Reduced disk write frequency of history databases.

18 December 2012

  • Fixed an issue where items wouldn’t update.
  • Improved download & upload order to be more consistent in the Combined item.
  • Improved selected state for menu bar icons.
  • Improved some menu bar icons.
  • Fixed an issue where where the world clocks list didn’t display correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with processes not displaying.

5 December 2012

  • Added dark dropdown theme.
  • Added white menu bar theme (for those with a dark Mac menu bar).
  • Added more customisation options in Disks extra.
  • Moved disk activity into main drop down in Disks extra.
  • Improved download & upload order to be more consistent.
  • Fixed some installation issues.
  • Fixed several calendar issues.
  • Fixed world clocks being in the wrong order in some cases.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the menu bar time to stop updating.
  • Added ability to copy public IP address.
  • Fixed issues with calendar showing incorrectly in some timezones.
  • Fixed issue with disk activity not working with some disks.
  • Fixed missing sensors on 2012 Mac mini and 13 inch Retina MacBook Pro.
  • Fixed issue with "Show inactive as free" memory option not working in some elements.
  • Fixed issue with HD space calculations.
  • Fixed issue with Default fan speed setting not working.
  • Fixed issue with active fan set showing the wrong name.
  • Fixed issue with network menu bar showing no activity in some cases.
  • Fixed issue with missing menu bar elements in battery extra on desktop systems.
  • Fixed issue launching Network and Energy Saver preference panes.
  • Fixed issue with public IP showing a private IP with some network configurations.

28 November 2012

  • Added full Retina display support, including all new menu bar icons and user interface.
  • Improved support for macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • Added per process network bandwidth monitoring.
  • Added support for calendar events.
  • Added history graphs for CPU over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for memory over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for disk space over 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for disk activity over 5 minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for network activity over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for load averages over 5 minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days.
  • Added history graphs for sensors over 1 hour, 24 hours and 7 days..
  • Added more detailed GPU monitoring.
  • Added the ability to change fan speed from the menu bar.
  • Added SMART status monitoring to disks.
  • Added read and write IOPS to disks.
  • Combined Disks and Disk Activity.
  • Improved icon.
  • Hundreds of other minor improvements.

Download iStat Menus 3.27

24 October 2012

  • Fixed performance issues caused by the previous update.
  • Fixed some issues with process monitoring in the combined extra.
  • Fixed some missing images in the combined extra.
  • Fixed an issue with hard drive temperature monitoring.
  • Updated fan control database.

17 October 2012

  • Fixed bug where SMART drive temperature might be missing initially.
  • Fixed performance issues caused by the previous update.

8 October 2012

  • Important bug fixes.
  • Replaced open iCal with open Calendar for Mountain Lion users.
  • Improved support for Mountain Lion.
  • Improved process monitoring.
  • Improved update checker.

May 2012

  • Improved macOS Mountain Lion support, including Gatekeeper.
  • Fixed some minor bugs.
  • Added ability to send diagnostic and usage data.

May 2012

  • Fixed missing images in Combined extra.
  • Fixed display issue with low battery warning in Combined extra.
  • Fixed fan control.
  • Improved GPU monitoring.
  • Improved GPU monitoring performance.
  • Fixed issue with firewall in version 3.20.
  • Fixed memory leak in CPU extra.
  • Fixed bug with disks in preferences.
  • Improved performance and bug fixes for GPU monitoring.
  • Time Machine backups disk is now hidden in Disks Usage.
  • Fixed an installer bug.

Download iStat Menus 3.19

  • Final release for macOS 10.5 and PPC. Future releases will require an Intel based Mac running macOS 10.6 or newer.
  • Fixed bug that could cause GPU stats to stop updating.
  • Recovery partition in macOS 10.7 is now hidden in the Disks extra.
  • Improved sensor support for Mid 2011 iMacs.
  • Improved support for macOS Lion.
  • Added preliminary support for macOS Lion.
  • Improved support for 2011 MacBook Pros.
  • Improved stability.
  • Added GPU memory usage to CPU extra dropdown.
  • Added name of active GPU to CPU extra dropdown.
  • Added support for IPv6 addresses in network extra.
  • Added support for multiple IP addresses in network extra.
  • Added localized names in the combined extra.
  • Fixed bug with terabyte values in the network extra dropdown.
  • Fixed bug with german fuzzy clock translation.
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Improved sensor support for late 2010 MacBook Airs.
  • Improved sensor support for Intel based Xserves.
  • Fixed bug with temperature sensor support on MDD G4s.
  • Fixed bug with empty fields in the Combined extra causing incorrect display of the CPU extra in the source list.
  • Improved performance.

24 September 2010

  • Added new Combined extra.
  • Added around 100 new sensors for Intel based Macs.
  • Improved sensor support for PowerMac G5s and PowerBook G4s.
  • Improved icon.
  • Fixed bug with battery sensors being listed under fans on PowerBooks and iBooks.
  • Fixed bugs with week of year in menu bar.
  • Fixed bug with localization introduced in version 3.04.
  • Fixed bug with custom fan speeds being applied after wake even though fan speed control was turned off.
  • Added support for fan speed control on 2010 iMacs.
  • Added support for Magic Trackpad in the battery extra.
  • Added optional shadows for bandwidth text.
  • Added day of year and week of year tokens to menu bar date formatter.
  • Improved sensor monitoring on 2010 iMacs.
  • Improved: Sunrise and sunset info now uses 24-hour time if world clocks use 24-hour time.
  • Fixed bugs with fan speed control after wake.
  • Added support for sensor monitoring on 2010 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis.
  • Added an optional moon phase icon to the Date & Time extra.
  • Added an optional transparent calendar icon to the Date & Time extra.
  • Added an option to hide UPSs from the menu bar.
  • Improved stability.
  • Improved city searching.
  • Fixed bug with fan speeds being reset to default after sleep.
  • Fixed bug with UPSs not showing as charged.
  • Fixed localizations with fuzzy clock.
  • Fixed some installer bugs.
  • Mono battery icons now show in white when selected.
  • Added easier to find Uninstall buttons in extras and preferences app when trial is over.
  • Added generic Eastern/Central/Mountain/Pacific cities for USA.
  • Improved fan speed control.
  • Fixed bug that could cause some of the extras to crash.
  • Fixed bug with network scaling slider showing incorrect value after relaunch.
  • Fixed bugs with clock format editors.
  • Minor localization fixes.
  • Improved translations.
  • Added battery monitoring of newer Apple Wireless Keyboards.
  • Fixed bug with fan speed menu not being in sync with prefs.
  • Fixed bug with fan speed being reset to default when power adapter is connected in some cases.
  • Fixed bug with fan speed not be set to custom setting after reboot.
  • Fixed crash in memory extra.
  • Fixed bugs with fuzzy clock in some languages.
  • Fixed bug with battery display incorrectly showing 100% in rare cases.
  • Fixed bug with “Edit Preferences” button not being hidden in Battery extra.
  • Fixed a bug where CPU pie chart didn’t respect the “Use black graphs and icons in menu bar” setting.
  • Battery display can now be empty when “Customize menu bar for different states” is enabled.

23 April 2010

  • The preferences are now in a standalone app, rather than a preference pane (and a completely new design, too).
  • Simplified installation—just run the app or drag to your Applications folder.
  • Added stacked mode to sensors extra.
  • Added fan speed control to sensors extra (Intel only).
  • Added public IP to network extra.
  • Added battery extra.
  • Added sun and moon info for each city in Date & Time.
  • Added moon phase info to Date & Time.
  • Added fuzzy clock.
  • Added flashing time separators.
  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. drive temperature monitoring.
  • Reduced cpu usage in sensors extra.
  • Added localizations for menu extras (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese).
  • Fixed crash in iStat Local.
  • Fixed crash in Network extra.
  • Fixed crash in Disks extra.
  • Fixed bug with network usage on newer Macs.
  • Fixed bug with CPU usage being incorrect with some configurations.
  • Fixed conflict between Messages.framework and network extra.
  • Fixed bug with calendar week display.
  • Fixed bug with date display in Date & Time dropdown.
  • Fixed connection time for PPP connections.
  • Fixed time for dialup connections.
  • Fixed ejecting of network disks.

3 September 2009

  • macOS 10.6 support (requires at least macOS 10.5).
  • Aqua skin support in all dropdowns.
  • New menu bar layout selectors.
  • Installer now allows you to install for all users.
  • Added option for “Preferences...” item on each dropdown.
  • Added red and purple skins.
  • Display options for each mode are built into the new layout selector.
  • New calendar and world clocks.
  • Added over 20,000 new cities to world clock database.
  • You can now add custom cities to the world clock database.
  • Added several new clock formatters.
  • New clock format selector.
  • Calendar icon can now be place anywhere.
  • Fixed bugs with week number calculations.
  • Calendar supports any day as the first day of the week.
  • Improved calendar support for countries where weekends are on thursday and friday.
  • Date in Date & Time dropdown now uses the full date format as specified in the International or Language & Text preference pane in system preferences.
  • Option to group items together for CPU extra.
  • Improved CPU dropdown display on 16 core systems.
  • Added pie graph mode to CPU.
  • Option to limit CPU history graph to 1 item.
  • Added Console item to CPU and Memory extras.
  • Added pie graph mode to Disk Usage.
  • Added disk ejecting.
  • Added disk mounting.
  • You can now have multiple disks or sensors in the menu bar.
  • Network disks are now support in Disk Usage extra.
  • Added option to use base 10 match for calculating hard drive sizes (same as Finder in 10.6).
  • Added Disk Utility item to disks extra.
  • Added new Activity extra for disk activity.
  • New Sensors extra replaces the Temperatures and Fans & Electrics extras.
  • Option to hide “rpm” suffix from menu bar display for fans.
  • Fixed bug with “disable on battery” option for S.M.A.R.T drive temperature monitoring.
  • Support for battery cell voltages.
  • Added Overlay graph type to Network extra.
  • Added option to scale network graphs to visible peak.
  • Added network location switching.
  • Added dot mode to Network & Activity extras.
  • Improved support for 2009 Mac Pros.
  • Removed Bluetooth extra (most features will be included in a new extra later on).
  • Swapped order of disk activity arrows - read is now on top.
  • Added font size options for most menu bar text modes.
  • Added shadow options for most menu bar text modes.
  • Added process monitoring to memory extra.
  • Added PPP controls to network extra (10.5 only).
  • Added configuration switching for network connections where applicable - vpn, modem, bluetooth (10.5).
  • Added option to use rounded corners on menu bar graph modes.
  • Leaner date & time dropdown.
  • Added current read/write values as text to activity monitoring in drives extra.
  • Improved support for LaunchCFM application names in process monitoring.
  • Fixed display bug with memory pie graph when “MEM” label was turned off.
  • Aqua skin in date & time extra now respects the system theme (10.5).
  • Bug fixes with using a SMART drive as the primary temperature sensor.
  • Improved SMART temperature monitoring.
  • Fixed math bug in used/free mode in memory extra.
  • Added option to disable SMART temperature monitoring when running on battery power.
  • Added basic accessibility support to all extras.
  • Updated Preference Pane interface.
  • Updated clock format selector.
  • Replaced old world clock format options with a new format selector.
  • Added Power/Voltage/Current monitoring support to updated fans extra (now known as Fans & Power).
  • Updated process monitoring server..
  • Added ability to copy ip addresses in the network extra (10.5 only).
  • Improved MDD temperature support.
  • Improved Macbook Air temperature support.
  • Network extra will now shows decimal values for KB/Kb values.
  • Added option to to show removable media in disks extra.
  • Improved support for VPN connections in network extra.
  • Processes monitoring - Users can now monitor which processes are using the most CPU.
  • Enhanced Date & Time - A completely customisable format selector gives you complete control over the clock display, including a choice of 5 new calendar icons. An additional "Blaqua" skin is available for macOS 10.5 users.
  • Enhanced bandwidth monitoring - You can now view bandwidth graphs for each interface in the dropdown as well as choose the data format (bit or byte based).
  • Better temperature and fan support - Better support for temperature sensors in G4 PowerBooks, the latest iMacs and Intel based Xserves. Better fan support for G4 PowerBooks and iBooks. S.M.A.R.T. capable hard drive temperatures can now be shown in the menu bar and shown or hidden in the menu dropdown.
  • Disk performance monitor - The drives dropdown menu now includes a disk activity graph that lets you monitor disk performance over time.
  • Realtime timer sliders - All the sliders that determine how frequently each menu extra updates now react as they’re moved.
  • Added additional icon designs for menu bar icon in date & time extra.
  • Added pie graph mode to memory extra.
  • Added option to show bandwidth graphs in network dropdown.
  • Added option to show disk activity graph in disks dropdown.
  • Added ability to choose which S.M.A.R.T. drives are shown in the temperature dropdown.
  • Added ability to select a S.M.A.R.T. sensor as the primary temperature sensor.
  • Added process monitoring to cpu extra.
  • Added new menu bar clock format selector.
  • Fixed bug with stale network shares in disks extra.
  • Added data format selector for network extra (allows you to change display to bits and also display values below 1KB).
  • Fixed bug with menu bar display in temperature extra.
  • Fixed bug with “Use black graphs” option in memory extra menu bar display.
  • Fixed timezone change bug in Date & Time extra.
  • Added support for Powerbook temperature sensors that previously were stuck on 1 value.
  • Improved support for fans on iBooks and Powerbooks.
  • Added ability to change disk activity arrow colors.
  • Added ability to change menu bar clock text color.
  • Added font size option for clock text.
  • Updated menu bar graph width for network extra (now matches cpu extra).
  • Added option to show GMT offset in world clock display.
  • Added option to hide U:/F: labels in used/free mode in disks extra.
  • Added option to hide U:/F: labels in used/free mode in memory extra.
  • Added option to use our Blaqua skin in the date & time extra.
  • Reduced memory usage (around 40% overall).
  • Updated Intel sensors module.
  • Added support for new iMac sensors and Intel XServe sensors.
  • menu bar text/graph turns grey in network extra if no network connection is found.
  • Improved dropdown appearance in 10.5.
  • Replaced Internet Connect button with Network Preferences button in network extra.
  • Fixed bug with timezone changes and Date & Time extra.
  • Fixed bug with 12am display on 24 hour clock.
  • Timer text in pref pane now updates constantly during slider adjustments.

August 2007

  • Redesigned the entire pref pane interface.
  • Added support for 24 hour time in world clocks section.
  • Added support for temperature monitoring of S.M.A.R.T. capable hard drives.
  • Added ability to re-order world clock in preference pane.
  • Added activity monitor button to CPU extra (10.5 only).
  • Added activity monitor button to memory extra (10.5 only).
  • Added iSync button to Bluetooth extra.
  • Added option to show usage breakdowns in CPU graphs.
  • Added option to show usage breakdowns in memory graphs.
  • Added option to use custom graph colors in CPU extra.
  • Added option to use custom graph colors in memory extra.
  • Added option to choose if inactive memory is treated as free.
  • Swap display in memory extra now displays used swap (previously just total swap).
  • Added option to show week numbers in calendar.
  • Added option to hide/show am/pm in world clocks.
  • Fixed bug with time changes not being reflected in date & time extra.
  • Fixed bug with network filtering.
  • Added option to use monday as first day of week in calendar.
  • Fixed bug with 3rd load average value in CPU extra.
  • Fixed display bug with long values in network extra.
  • Reduced minimum size of history graphs in CPU and memory extras.
  • Added support for graphs in network extra.
  • Added ability to view other months in calendar (10.5 only).
  • Redesigned calendar and world clocks in date & time extra.
  • Clicking on disk icons will open the drive in Finder (10.5 only).
  • Fixed bug with display on 24 clock.
  • Added Network Utility & Internet Connect buttons to network extra (10.5 only).
  • Improved 10.5 support.

May 2007

Initial release.


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